The Photography of Kurt F Fink (kfink.portfolio.com)

Hello, last weekend I had the opportunity to attend and photograph the Old bedford Village 18th Century Christmas event. There the staff, and numerous volunteers,  recreate Christmas in pioneer America with costumed guides, craftsmen, and strolling minstrels at historic Old Bedford Village. Old Bedford Village welcomes you to discover America's history. Our living history village brings the past into the present. Old Bedford Village offers a rich variety of educational and entertainment activities. Visitors of all ages will enjoy our military and civilian re-enactments, colonial crafts, exhibits and instructions, festivals, murder/mystery evenings, old fashioned Christmas celebrations and more! I would like to thank the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment for their hospitality during the weekend.     The 42nd drills to achieve skills used in the 18th Century. The bakery was packed with cookies that brought a nice smell the area. As they did in the 18th centu...

Keynote speaker Dr. Anthony Perzigin                                                                                                 About NSCS Megan Chambers, President The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is an honor society inviting high-achieving freshmen and sophomores. Members must have a GPA of 3.4 or above and rank in the top 20 percent of their class. NSCS is proud to offer more money for undergraduate scholarships than any other honor society nationwide. But more than that, NSCS is a grow...

The Mooreland Mansion Edward W. Moore , a prominent Cleveland capitalist, made his fortune in banking, electric railroads and telephone distribution during the late 1800s. During this time, Moore commissioned Cleveland architect Arthur N. Oviatt to design a summer country home in Lake County, Ohio. The original property included a working farm and covered over 1,000 acres. The country home, neo-classical in style, was substantially enlarged in 1906 with Milton Dyer engaged as architect. (Dyer later designed Cleveland City Hall.) Landscape architect A. Donald Gray designed the layout of a pool, fountains, rose gardens, and a nine-hole golf course. Mooreland was a retreat for wealthy industrialists. Records show that among the noted guests were Eleanore Roosevelt and Polish Prime Minister and noted pianist Ignacy Paderewski. After Moore died in 1928, his family sold their home in Cleveland and made their permanent residence at Mooreland. The estate remained relatively ...

The self-unloading barge McKee Sons was built in 1945 initially as a type "C4-S-B2" fast troop transport by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, PA christened as the Marine Angel. Her overall length at construction was approximately 510 feet with her power coming from a 9,900 shp steam turbine engine. The Marine Angel was acquired by Amerisand Steamship Co. in 1952 with partial ownership shared with Boland & Cornelius (American Steamship Co.) whose fleet would operate the converted vessel on the Great Lakes. The retrofit of the Marine Angel included lengthening of 123 feet, new fuller bow, replacing the midship pilothouse with a new bow pilothouse, and an overhaul of her engine. This was completed at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD. After being towed up the Mississippi River into the Great Lakes, her conversion to a self-unloader was finished at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Inc., Manitowoc, WI in 1953. She was christened McKee Sons and entered service that same year....

Top: Mrytle and Pete Dickhardt (Charles F Fink Sr. sister) who raised Charles Fink Jr. Charles F Fink Sr., Gertrude Fink and Charles F Fink Jr.(Fritz) Kurt & June Fink Joe Horvath and Sons Brin, Joe Brett, Joe, Chip and Kris The Horvath Girls; Elizabeth, Jane, Betty, Karen and Terry Karen and Betty in Houston, Texas The photographs of the Joe Horvath family and the Charles Fink Jr. Family More to come in future blog's. Kurt :)

The summer weather provides a variety of sunset colors. This sunset was shot after a day of thunderstorms and changing temperatures. Lake Erie provides a lot of wave action when the wind is blowing. Boaters are not afraid to venture out at sunset to enjoy a cool evening ride. Photographs shot with a Nikon D3 at 200 ISO using a 70mm - 200mm 2.8f lens with a polarizing filter.

USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224) is a Gato-class submarine , the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the cod , the well-known food fish of the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut on 21 July 1942. She was launched on 21 March 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. G.M. Mahoney), and commissioned on 21 June 1943 with Lieutenant Commander James C. Dempsey ( Class of 1931) in command. World War II First and second patrols Cod arrived in Brisbane , Australia , on 2 October 1943 to prepare for her first war patrol . She sailed from there 20 days later. Penetrating the South China Sea , she contacted few targets, and launched an attack only once, on 29 November, with unobserved results. Returning to Fremantle , Western Australia , to refit from 16 December 1943 to 11 January 1944, Cod put to sea for her second war patrol in the South China Sea, off Java , and off Halmahera . On 16 February, she surfaced ...